Replacement seats with built-in bidets are becoming more and more common, they just attach to the water line on the back of tank, they’re very convenient.

If you just give everyone unlimited bread sticks most people never even make it to the entree, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

It’s one of the main reasons our owner class has sought to mock the French with “surrender” slurs and “freedom fries.”

They’d very much like the citizenry to forget Frances contribution to America and “western culture” over the last 200 years lest they get any ideas.

I’m only a few years younger and have pretty much always had shitty/non-existent insurance until the last decade.

Without revealing too much about myself, my employer just switched their provider to UHC this year so you can imagine I’m watching all this intently.

Without getting into the weeds too much I’d be willing to bet that when the accused rapist is rich there’s a huge chance they’ll be given the benefit of the doubt. While if it’s a poor person they’re far more likely to be caught up in whatever charges the system can present in the interest of snaring another person in the Prison Industrial Complex.

There really is no war but the class war.

And they did, I was threatened multiple times at a Sprint call center and reported it.

We all did, cops never even take a report, weird that the health insurance people get special treatment.

While I’ve had a positive experience

Let me guess, still on parents insurance or never had insurance through an employer?

It was mostly a joke but I don’t disagree with your assessment.

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He’s a programmer, they’re not really known for their awareness outside of pretty specific problem solving.

Was just talking to my partner about this last night. We both got to experience the internet before social media and corpos fucked everything up.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO CRANK THE HOG TO BROTHER, ARROOOOOOO!

An increasing number of Americans are beginning to see the problems inherent in capitalism.

You have to actually consider what the other person is saying if you want to have a productive conversation. Being snarky or just responding with memes and cliches only distracts from the point being made.

Yes, that there’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire. I wonder what the computing landscape would look like if M$ hadn’t spent three decades buying and closing every up and coming competitor they had.

“Rugged individualism” is propaganda sold to school children from the time they’re in grade school.

That’s the beauty of it, they’re not wrong either way.

Give it a decade and people might become a lot leaner and a lot stronger though, I hope. Admittedly I don’t have a lot of faith in my compatriots but it could happen.